Practical Ethics

Peter Singer is currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University's University Center for Human Values and a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He is the author or editor of over forty books, including Animal Liberation (1975), Rethinking Life and Death (1996), and The Life You Can Save (most recently) (2009). Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2005.

Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the standard introduction to applied ethics for the past thirty years. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all of the chapters, as well as added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of our generation's most pressing ethical challenges. Some of the issues raised in this book are relevant to our daily lives. Is it moral to purchase luxuries when others go hungry? Should we eat meat from animals raised intensively? Is there something I'm doing wrong if my carbon footprint exceeds the global average? Other issues confront us as concerned citizens: equality and discrimination based on race or gender; abortion, the use of embryos for research, and euthanasia; political violence and terrorism; and environmental preservation. This book's lucid style and provocative arguments make it an ideal text for university courses and anyone interested in considering how they should live. This classic textbook has been completely revised and updated for the third edition, which includes a new chapter on climate change.

Author: Peter Singer

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